*ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion*
Date: Friday, October 9th
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm
Pizza will be served.
Location: B-106 @ Center for Astrophysics (60 Garden Street)
Directions: after entering the lobby of the CfA, turn right to enter the
hallway of the B building. In the hallway, turn right again, and B-106
is there.
*Speaker:*Chris Ticknor , Los Alamos National Lab
*Title: *Scaling of fluctuations in a trapped binary condensate
*Abstract: *We demonstrate that measurements of number fluctuations
within finite cells provide a direct means to study susceptibility
scaling in a trapped two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. This system
supports a second-order phase transition between miscible (cospatial)
and immiscible (symmetry-broken) states that is driven by a diverging
susceptibility to magnetic fluctuations. As the transition is approached
from the miscible side the magnetic susceptibility is found to depend
strongly on the geometry and orientation of the observation cell. I will
additionally discuss recent work on dense molecular mixtures and their
application to equation of state. This work is of interest to planetary
structure.
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Stefan Pabst
ITAMP Postdoc
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
phone: +1-617-495-7239
fax: +1-617-496-7668
email: stefan.pabst(a)cfa.harvard.edu
website:
www.stefanpabst.name